II
DIARY OF A JOURNEY FROM BALASORE
TO PATNA
1669-1670
BALLASORE
Harl MS, 4254, fol. 4 (reverse),
£ July 1669. Came from Mctchlepatam [Masuli-
patam] and arrived in Ballasore Road 9th [July]
4 clock afternoone, and anchored about i\ Leagues
from Shore/ we going ashore in a Purgo, which is
a great Boat of 10 or 15 Tunns with their heads very
low and Starns very high,2 Wee came at a Barr
i mile from shore, which is a very dangerous place to
sail over, being very narrow and being very great seas.
After our arrival on Shore, sayled about 16 miles up
a river called Ballasore [Burabalang] River, and then
arrived at Ballasore, where the English have a Factory
a little way from the River side* This in the Rain
times is very dirty, ws/,, from May to October after
the first full or new Moone, when the Moonsoones
break up, but after is very pleasant, having about a
mile from the Towne severall very hansome Mango
gardens.3
ROMANA [RAMUNA]
This towne lies about 4 miles from Ballasore which
was formerly the Rojas King Towne where hee lived,4
61